June 5, 2025

Identifying as Maori

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Worth it. Whatever it costs you’ll make it back on special education grants, rates exemptions, special back-door entry into professional degrees. For the right people a seat on the local council without the need for messy campaigns or pesky elections. Brings DEI value to any workplace. You get special food-gathering rights, consultation fees, and ownership […]

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June 5, 2025

The Azaria Chamberlain Madeleine McCann Show

By NZB3

Little girl lost, Madeline McCann, hasn’t been seen since 2007. Since then her humanity has been truly eclipsed by media spectacle which reduces her to an invisible zombie. Every year or so the specter of the little dead girl ‘we’ refuse to let die will be resurrected and paraded. In 2025 this has just happened […]

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June 4, 2025

Breaucratic Popularity Contest

By NZB3

DOC need to win popularity contest. Get more funding in budget. So, we’re saturated in photos of DOC staff in nifty uniforms in nature hugging kiwis as if the birds just hopped into their arms spontaneously for a cuddle. Sadly, Police have to do this too. Hence, their various Woke car detailing, tattoos, and uniform […]

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June 3, 2025

1986: Bilingual Egmont

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

David Lange’s Labour 6.0 Ministry had Mr Koro Wetere as its Minister for Maori Affairs as well as Minister of Lands. Koro’s seat was Western Maori too so he had some home bias to contend with when it came to being in “the hot seat” over the re-naming of Mt Egmont to Mount Taranaki. The […]

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May 29, 2025

Mission: Impossible – McGuffin Overload!

By NZB3

So, we now have the completion of the new 2-part Mission Impossible film. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) has been followed up with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025.) What a drag it was. Much like The Force Awakens (2015) we were let down by Dead Reckoning. But also in this […]

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May 29, 2025

1941: Auckland Mayor John Allum

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Today in New Zealand history, 28 May, 1941, John Allum became the mayor of Auckland. This portrait (left) has been mothballed for decades in the city archives. They didn’t even know who it was and that it was someone else! Only turned up because the archives were being shifted to the North Shore to (I […]

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May 28, 2025

1922: Girdleston Peak War Memorial

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

World War 1 memorial destroyed by a Maori activist and a Feminist writer. New Zealanders owe a great debt to the contributions of its early surveyors as well as the ANZAC soldiers. Sergeant Hubert Girdlestone (1879-1918) was both of these in one. Hugh, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, had the misfortune to be killed […]

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May 27, 2025

1968: Inangahua Earthquake

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Most of New Zealand felt the earthquake (7.1) that struck the settlement of Inangahua today in history, Friday May 24, 1968, at 5.24am. Three people were killed and 14 counted as injured. Great video here from Nelson Provincial Museum showing the damage and hurt. 70% Of the dwellings in the town were made uninhabitable. Aftershocks […]

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May 24, 2025

1914: St Kilda Community Library

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

In St Kilda, Dunedin, a perfectly good Anarchist library is about to be replaced by a government one. The 1914 St Kilda Community Library didn’t tax anyone. It was run by voluntary effort for 110 years. “The library has been run and kept open by volunteers since its inception.” “The library originally opened in April […]

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May 24, 2025

1988: Fencing of Swimming Pools

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

On 20 July 1987 the Fencing of Swimming Pools Act gained assent and commencement. It came into force the following year on 1 May and applied to everyone with an existing swimming pool,  1 September for new pools. New Zealanders who wished to keep their property, their pools, would now have to fence them off. […]

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May 16, 2025

1988: Richard and Judy

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Worship the anthropocentric hardware of the teleprompter… “Much of the attention focused on newsreaders, their jobs being about as simple as any known to mankind. A stop-go sign holder at roadworks literally has more intellectual demands placed on him or her than someone robotically reading the lines from a screen. This celebrity treatment of newsreaders […]

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May 11, 2025

Nathan Wallis Grift

By NZB3

It’s hard to know when mainstream media is putting out advertising or editorial content. As a rule, the show is propaganda/advertising and the ‘break’ for ‘advertising’ is the real news since it carries price and product information explicitly. The rest of the time they’re trying to sell you something subversively without you knowing. Take Radio […]

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May 8, 2025